How to set scoreboard timer rules

The tablets time each game from your event’s scoreboard settings: how long the game lasts, whether it has a half-time, a no-block stage or a tie-breaker, whether each set has its own clock, and how many timeouts teams get. One configuration covers every court, and playoff rounds or single games can have their own.

Before you start

• You need to manage the event or its scoreboards.
• Open your event’s Scoreboard Dashboard. See how to set up scoreboards and pair tablets.

Steps

The steps set up two halves with a half-time and timeouts. Every setting is described below.

1. On the dashboard, click Tablets Settings.

   

2. Under Game Type, choose Two Halves, then set the minutes of the 1st half and the 2nd half below.

   

3. Turn on Includes “Half-Time”, then set the Halftime Duration.

   

4. Turn on Enable Timeouts, then set the Timeouts per Team and how long each lasts.

   

5. Click Save Configuration.

   

Game Type

Two Halves splits a game into a 1st half and a 2nd half, each with its own length in minutes. Single Regulation Period plays the game as one period, as long as its Regulation Time.

Cloth Ruleset

For cloth dodgeball. Every set runs on its own clock, as long as the Set Duration, and near the end of the game the tablet offers a 90s Set. While it’s on, the Includes “No-Block” and Enable Set Timer switches go away: a cloth game has no no-block stage, and always has a set clock.

Includes “No-Block”

Adds a No block stage after each half, or after the single period, and after a tie-breaker. It has no clock: the scorekeeper ends it on the tablet.

Includes “Half-Time”

Adds a break between the two halves, as long as the Halftime Duration. A game played as one period has no half-time.

Allow Tie-Breaker Stage

Adds a Tie-breaker stage before the game ends, as long as the Tie-Breaker Duration. At the end of regulation, the tablet shows a Play Tie Breaker button.

Enable Set Timer

Gives each set its own clock, as long as the Set Duration, beside the game clock. Between sets, the scorekeeper starts a New Set on the tablet. When less time is left in the game than a full set, the tablet offers Play Remaining time instead.

Enable Timeouts

Gives each team a number of timeouts (Timeouts per Team), each lasting the Duration in seconds. With two halves, Timeout Allocation decides whether teams get them again in the second half (Per Half) or once for the whole game (Per Game). The scorekeeper calls a timeout on the tablet.

Suggest from schedule

Fills in the game lengths from your event’s schedule. A playoff round or division whose games run longer or shorter gets its own override, and divisions played with cloth balls get the cloth ruleset. It’s greyed out when your settings already match the schedule. Nothing is saved until you click Save Configuration.

Settings Overrides

The Base Configuration tab applies to every game. To give some games other rules, open the Settings Overrides tab and click Add Override:

• Round Override applies to the rounds you choose, such as the finals, in every division or only in the divisions you pick.
• Match Override applies to the games you choose.

An override starts from the base settings, so change only what differs. Delete Override removes it. Click Save Configuration to keep your changes, or Cancel to drop them.